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There aren't many grand designs in computing systems in general. Most evolve from humble beginnings. The web has been evolving since the 90s, and it can keep go

• simonh 9y ago
  Yes, absolutely, but it's still nowhere near being the one true answer to all the world's software development and deployment woes. This article on who they developed the Basecamp app is excellent. I'm toying with a similar approach in a little interactive adventure app I'm writing in Pythonista. Except of course that Pythonista isn't really native at all, but still I'm using a webview to display location descriptions and various choices as links, but native controls for things like inventory management and displaying various stats.
  • oblio 9y ago
    > Yes, absolutely, but it's still nowhere near being the one true answer to all the world's software development and deployment woes. One could argue that besides its original flaws, the web platform has been hobbled and maybe downright sabotaged by the platform owners (Microsoft, Apple, to an extent even Google). Javascript could have been cleaned up 10 years ago, same for many other web concepts still in use.